VERY creative and productive day today, despite the fact that I simply could not believe it when the alarm went off this morning. I edited three chapters today, including completely rewriting several major scenes from scratch–and then going back later when I’d thought about it more and editing them MORE. It is all starting to […]

I have moved to page 2 of the outline, in my edit! Which, given that the outline goes only halfway onto page 3, is progress indeed. I’d say I’m not quite halfway done, but way more than a third. Despite its being such a social weekend, too. I saw friends yesterday, and tried out a

Because in the freelancer’s/writer’s life, weekends only mean a) time you get to see more of your friends, and b) new work probably won’t come in. 🙂 Got two more chapters edited today though! Including adding a scene, and entirely rewriting an important scene. I am about a third of the way through the book,

1. Hey look, Mark blogged again! 2. It was sunny today! Wow, how I’ve missed that. 3. Dear Spammers: If you’re going to go to the trouble to make a faux-personalized spam-comment on my blog, try to choose a post that’s more recent than five years old, okay? 4. P.S. to Spammers: Although, nevermind, I’m

I don’t have any grand adventures of discombobulation to report today, for which I am most thankful. I went to yoga–it felt good, nothing hurt. I got household chores done–nothing exploded or broke or fell apart or didn’t fit. I went for a swim–pool was open, in fact nearly empty (of other swimmers), which is

Today started kind of sideways, and never really righted itself. I was handed lots of lemons; I made lots of lemonade, but, as it turns out, there are still lemons lying around. Hmph. I woke up late, but I thought it was early, it was so dark; I did some yoga, but it was so

Sometimes I am the only student who shows up for yoga class. Which sometimes makes me nervous–if not enough people come to class, maybe she’ll think about canceling it–but so far, she hasn’t. 🙂 And today was one of those days, and actually, it was great. I told Teacher about my tweaky-back, and so that

Well, nothing exploded this morning, so I guess I’ll count that as an improvement. But I did pull something in my back doing yoga–doing a move I do a hundred times in every practice–which was painful, and dismaying. I’d been hoping to go for a long-anticipated swim this afternoon (now that the pool is open

I am working very hard on my edits for The Queen and The Tower. Thus far there is actually nothing to show for it, in a tangible sense. Other than I am eating rather too much ice cream. But oh, the thinking. The world building. (Yes you’d think the world would have been built by

Just a quick follow-up on the Cirque du Soleil story (where they mistakenly gave me March tickets instead of February tickets): I have spoken to them, they are very very sorry, and in consideration of what happened, they are refunding my “convenience fee” ($20 for the two tickets). Which strikes me as a very elegant